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“Well I perceive myself as fat so I can say it if I want to” no.

There are millionaires who perceive themselves as poor, they aren’t poor and saying “I’m so poor” does not actual put them into the category of “poor.”

You’re not an honorary fat person because you perceive yourself as being fat. You don’t get to invade fat spaces (think — “the body positivity movement is toxic because they don’t allow me, a skinny able bodied person, to invade a space made for disabled and fat bodies” — sorta thing) because you perceive yourself as fat.

You’re not fat, your unhappy. And there is nothing wrong with wanting be a size 4 when you’re a size 8. The problem is you invading fat spaces, invalidating actual fat people’s experiences and, pushing yourself into a community that you’re not apart of while also moving the goal post for others who are actually fat and actively wanting to lose weight.

You’re, whether knowingly or unknowingly, contributing to the unhealthy and unrealistic ideals of diet culture.

Other words you can use to describe feeling like your body isn’t the way you want to it be:

Bloated
Uncomfortable
Stuffy
Disagreeable
Unhappy
Confined
Awkward
Uneasy
Tense
Self-conscious

There are so many ways to decided being displeased with our body whether it’s how we feel about it or how we feel about how it looks. There’s no reason to use “fat” as a feeling.

#body posititivity #body image #fat body positivity #diet culture

@marigoldwitch

Sat, 23 Apr 2022 15:38:26

So I had to get rid of the beard, once shaved I couldn’t believe how much of a double chin I’d developed and that it had been hiding. I plan to grow the beard back just wondered what everyone’s options are double chin or beard?